if you know a place online i can get them for a reasonable price or some place near NY that i can get them i'd be much obliged (96 2.5 tl)

on monday i'm getting my bumpers "fixed" but i'd rather spend that 500 dollars on 2 new ones

 

500 wont make it 2 new ones,wats wrong with your bumpers?

 

Whats wrong? Can you take pics? You'd be amazed what a body shop can do with damaged bumpers for only 200 or 300 bucks.

 

too lazy to take pics right now but lemme explain.

my mother bought the car in 96 with 8k miles on it from a dealer, apparently the person had gotten into countless fender-benders and messed up the bumpers pretty bad (cracks dents and so on) the dealership used steel-adhesive compound to smooth the bumper and painted over it, which made it look like new.

unfortunately according to the 6 body shops i've been to this is all that can be done for the car again and again because it the compounding is very very weak and crumbles off after a few years...

so my options today were:
get the thing compounded for 300 bucks but have it fall apart if i get into even the slightest accident, and if i avoid accidents will degrate after a few years anyway.

get aftermarket body kit for 500-700 but they are weak too.

find a junk yard with bumpers (that failed i checked 5 yards)

but now i found the bumpers on acuraoemparts.com for a total of 700 bucks


hence i'm no longer in need of assistance unless someone can find me mint bumpers for cheaper

 

car-part.com.

There's a bunch of bumpers there in your price range. Granted, you'll probably need to do some body and paint work on them after getting them.

 

My cars (touchwood) paintjob is ok all around except the fron and back bumpers. Any idea how mcuh it would cost to repaint the front and back bumpers. Will the paint match? I have the champaign silver color exterior.

 

Pricing depends on the quality of the materials used and the reputation of the shop. Try to use DuPont paints and a shop that is well known for quality work if you want a decent job. Metalic paints are, in my opinion, almost impossible to color match, which is why I own a dark green car and not a silver one.

I recently had my front and back bumpers repainted (with a small amount of repair work) for something like $500.00 if I remember correctly.

 

think about it this way. either way, body kit of OEM, you're gonna have to get them painted to your car color. are you planning on adding a body kit later on? if so, then it'd be pointless to order an OEM kit, paint it and put it on and then later on buy a bodykit, paint that and have that one put on. if you're not planning on getting a body kit later on then just go with OEM now. since OEM and aftermarket kits are about the same price then it's just a matter of choosing if you want your car stock or aftermarket. just dont do the same job twice by buying OEM now and putting a bodykit on later.

Like capricho said, it's gonna be very, very hard to totally color match a metallic color. you can order paint off a site like this http://www.expresspaint.com/productc...idproduct=6704 and have a paint shop use that but even then, i dont think it'll be exactly the same. to put things in perspective, when i wanted to get my spoiler painted, the honda dealer wanted $300 and that's a professional job. so for both bumpers...i'd say at least $1000 but you could always go to Macco and have your entire car repainted for $225 haha.

 

www.acuraparts247.com

Worth a try

 

i'm ordering from acuraoemparts.com for brand new genuine oem bumpers and i have a friend that can match the dark green of my car exactly so i'm pretty well off.